The Six Value Medals
By Edward de Bono (includes links to many of his other books)
Amazon link: The Six Value Medals: The Essential Tool for Success in the 21st Century
YouTube: A brief celebration of Edward de Bono's
ideas on thinking
Note the audience’s age and clothing.
What is their socioeconomic group?
Who paid for their attendance and why?
How many are aware of the concepts of image thinking?
Edward de Bono interview — The Science Show
Educated at St. Edward's College, Malta, he then gained a medical degree from the University of Malta.
Following this, he proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar in 1955 to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an MA in psychology and physiology.
He represented Oxford in polo and set two canoeing records.
He then gained a PhD degree in medicine from Trinity College, Cambridge.
De Bono held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge (where he helped to establish the university's medical school), London and Harvard.
He was a professor at the University of Malta, the University of Pretoria, the University of Central England (now called Birmingham City University) and Dublin City University.
De Bono held the Da Vinci Professor of Thinking chair at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona, US.
He was one of the 27 Ambassadors for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009.
The originator of the term 'Lateral Thinking', de Bono wrote 85 books with translations into 46 languages.
He taught his thinking methods to government agencies, corporate clients, organizations and individuals, privately or publicly in group sessions.
He promoted the World Center for New Thinking (2004–2011), based in Malta, which applied Thinking Tools to solution and policy design on the geopolitical level.
In 1976, de Bono took part in a radio debate for the BBC with British philosopher A.J. Ayer, on the subject of effective democracy.
Starting on Wednesday 8 September 1982, the BBC ran a series of 10 weekly programs entitled de Bono's Thinking Course .
In the shows, he explained how thinking skills could be improved by attention and practice.
The series was repeated the following year.
A book with the same title accompanied the series.
In May 1994, he gave a half-hour Opinions lecture televised on and subsequently published in The Independent as "Thinking Hats On".
In 1995, he created a futuristic documentary film, 2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bon, depicting a lecture to an audience of viewers released from a cryogenic freeze for contemporary society in the year 2040.
Convinced that a key way forward for humanity is a better language, he published The Edward de Bono Code Book in 2000.
In this book, he proposed a suite of new words based on numbers, where each number combination represents a useful idea or situation that currently does not have a single-word representation.
For example, de Bono code 6/2 means "Give me my point of view and I will give you your point of view."
Such a code might be used in situations where one or both of the two parties in a dispute are making insufficient effort to understand the other's perspective.
Dr de Bono has also contributed to many journals, including the Lancet and Clinical Science.
What Are the Six Value Medals?
We can greatly improve our traditional thinking habits.
Traditional thinking is all about analysis and judgment.
We recognise standard situations and apply standard answers.
This is no longer enough.
You can analyze the past but you have to design the future.
Values come into all areas of thinking and behavior.
Values are what we consider important, but we may not be consciously aware of them.
This book provides a powerful framework for value assessment.
Different types of value are given broad category names: gold, silver, steel, glass, wood and brass.
This makes it easier for us to notice such values, to look for them, to see them and to act upon them.
I have generally referred to applying the six value medals to organizations.
Businesses, managers and employees will all benefit from them but they work just as well when an individual is the organization.
You can apply these values to all areas of your life.
- Introduction: What Are the Six Value Medals?
- Why We Need Values
- Commodities
- The Cooking Competition
- Changes in Thinking
- Thinking about Value
- 1 Values
- When Do We Need to Assess Values?
- Decisions
- Value Scanning
- Analysis and Values
- Perception and Value
- Logic and Values
- Values and Emotions
- 2 Negative Values
- 3 Frameworks
- 4 Six Value Medals
- 5 Gold Medal Values
- Assessing Gold Medal Values
- Gold Medal Values of a Change
- Gold Medal Values of an Existing
- Situation
- The Range of Human Values
- Basic Needs
- Freedom From...
- Psychological Needs
- What Are Your Gold Medal Values?
- Summary
- 6 Silver Medal Values
- Purpose
- Different Organisations , Different
- Purposes
- Operations
- Levels
- Problem-Solving
- What Are Your Silver Medal Values?
- Summary
- 7 Steel Medal Values
- Customer Values
- Quality of Service
- Function Quality
- Quality and Change
- Negative Values
- Perceived Values
- Quality Focus
- What Are Your Steel Medal Values?
- Summary
- 8 Glass Medal Values
- Innovation
- Simplicity
- Creativity
- The Culture of Creativity
- Fragility
- Potential
- What Are Your Glass Medal Values?
- Summary
- 9 Wood Medal Values
- Impact
- Nature
- Other Parties
- Competitors
- Suppliers
- Friends and Family
- Negative Values
- What Are Your Wood Medal Values?
- Summary
- 10 Brass Medal Values
- Whose Interest?
- Negative Perceptions
- Shaping Perceptions
- Credibility
- Selective Perception
- Different Points of View
- What Are Your Brass Medal Values?
- Summary
- 11 Value Sensitivity
- Criticism
- Danger Sensitivity
- Unseen Value
- Elimination
- The Value Scan
- Habit
- 12 Conflicts and Priorities
- Prioritising Values
- Conflict of Values
- 13 Design
- Problem-Solving
- Conflict Resolution
- Conflicting Values
- 14 Value Size
- Figures
- Four Degrees of Value
- Strong Values
- Sound Values
- Weak Values
- Remote Values
- Negative Values
- Assessment
- 15 Benefits and Costs
- Decisions
- Negative Values
- 16 Sources of Value
- Communication Values
- Permission
- Gateway
- Enabler Values
- Catalyst Values
- Enhancer Values
- Accelerator Values
- Problem-Solving
- Removing Bottlenecks
- Mistakes
- Competitors
- Failures
- Concepts
- 17 The Value Triangle
- The Triangle
- Silver Medal
- Steel Medal
- Gold Medal
- Glass Medal
- Wood Medal
- Brass Medal
- Value Strength
- Comparison
- 18 The Value Map
- Listing
- Negative Values
- Sample List
- Joint Maps
- State of Thinking
- VICTERI Teams
- Conclusion
- Seeing Values
- Perception and Communication
- Visual Display
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